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Look What I Found In An Old Log.......
I tell ya, wonders never seize! It was a nice day today so I decided to split wood. After knocking out a full chord in a couple of hours, I decided to split this huge 3 feet in diameter piece of wild cherry that I've had laying around for a year or two. A good estimation as to the cherry wood's age is about 75-100 years old.
Anyway, I was working the edges and as I reached the center, I pulled the handle on the splitter and as the wood split, I noticed this funny looking thing sticking out of the wood. I said to myself, "this is weird, I'll check it out later".
So...After cleaning up and putting away the splitter, I showed the chunk of wood to my wife, and asked,"what in the tarnation is this?".
Then my daughter, "the world's most smartest person", was stumped. So...........I ask the combined knowledge of the board.....yea, Griff, that includes you........what in the tarnation is this?
My daughter thinks it's horse hair, but......the "hair" is black with some white. There is no barbed wire in the wood......this "hair" is encapsulated in what appears to be the texture of......a bent chicken bone.........look.....I play a lot here....but for real......a dang chicken bone.....but I'm sure it's not.
You can see in the picture that as I was cutting the wood, I did a good job of not screwing it up and you can see where the wood grew around this "encapsulated horse hair in a chicken bone".
My somewhat educated guess is that whatever it is, has been in the wood for the better part of the tree's life as it was located near the center.
For real guys, I'm not playing ......the pictures tell it.....and I'm glad I took pics from the beginning.
Any educated guesses? ------6
The first pic of the wood as I saw it from the splitter.
After a lot of sawing using the table saw and band saw......you can see where I nipped the "bone" towards the bottom.
Here's a pic of where I am almost ready to pry it out.
The finished product.....out of the wood...notice where the wood grew around it?
Anyway, I was working the edges and as I reached the center, I pulled the handle on the splitter and as the wood split, I noticed this funny looking thing sticking out of the wood. I said to myself, "this is weird, I'll check it out later".
So...After cleaning up and putting away the splitter, I showed the chunk of wood to my wife, and asked,"what in the tarnation is this?".
Then my daughter, "the world's most smartest person", was stumped. So...........I ask the combined knowledge of the board.....yea, Griff, that includes you........what in the tarnation is this?
My daughter thinks it's horse hair, but......the "hair" is black with some white. There is no barbed wire in the wood......this "hair" is encapsulated in what appears to be the texture of......a bent chicken bone.........look.....I play a lot here....but for real......a dang chicken bone.....but I'm sure it's not.
You can see in the picture that as I was cutting the wood, I did a good job of not screwing it up and you can see where the wood grew around this "encapsulated horse hair in a chicken bone".
My somewhat educated guess is that whatever it is, has been in the wood for the better part of the tree's life as it was located near the center.
For real guys, I'm not playing ......the pictures tell it.....and I'm glad I took pics from the beginning.
Any educated guesses? ------6
The first pic of the wood as I saw it from the splitter.
After a lot of sawing using the table saw and band saw......you can see where I nipped the "bone" towards the bottom.
Here's a pic of where I am almost ready to pry it out.
The finished product.....out of the wood...notice where the wood grew around it?
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that's a strange one for sure, my best guess some one put it there years ago for what ever reason
but the bone is weird maybe a Indian necklace? ive hit a lot of stuff in trees with a chain saw
but the neatest was a lead slug in a 180 yr. old rock elm tree dead center in the middle that was 40 yr. ago, the tree got hit in the very early 1800s
any ways you have a unique find!!!
Brad
but the bone is weird maybe a Indian necklace? ive hit a lot of stuff in trees with a chain saw
but the neatest was a lead slug in a 180 yr. old rock elm tree dead center in the middle that was 40 yr. ago, the tree got hit in the very early 1800s
any ways you have a unique find!!!
Brad
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Could it be a turkey beard?
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Not a clue. Can't tell what type of hair it is from the pic... Is all the hair of the same texture?
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Griff,
The texture is pretty much like horse hair....maybe a tad smoother......but while I can understand the black hair....where did the white come from?
Don't really think Indians had anything to do with it as Cherry wood grows about like walnut and has nowhere near the life expectancy that oak or hickory does as the Indians were wiped out from here in the middle 1700's.
Good thinking there Ollogger, as it does look to be man made. Might be on to something.
I'm ready to run this thing up to West Chester University.----6
The texture is pretty much like horse hair....maybe a tad smoother......but while I can understand the black hair....where did the white come from?
Don't really think Indians had anything to do with it as Cherry wood grows about like walnut and has nowhere near the life expectancy that oak or hickory does as the Indians were wiped out from here in the middle 1700's.
Good thinking there Ollogger, as it does look to be man made. Might be on to something.
I'm ready to run this thing up to West Chester University.----6
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Somebody marked the trail or the tree.
Prolly a big sack of gold buried under there.
Prolly a big sack of gold buried under there.
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Could it be an old turkey call striker ? Maybe someone decorated it with a turkey beard, left it hanging in the tree.
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Gosh, I'm glad you posted this; I've been meanin' to tell you that you bought my great-grandpappy's uncle's brother's farm, and I've got this here map, ya see.....anyways, I'll split it 50-50 with you if'n you can find it, OK...???FWiedner wrote:Somebody marked the trail or the tree. Prolly a big sack of gold buried under there.
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Looks like a turkey beard to me.
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And here I was expecting a 120 year old colt.
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The "hair" looks a lot like turkey beard inserted in a bone. By the way, turkey beards hair is actually feathers. I can envision a turkey call striker, a bone pen with turkey beard dressing, a neck or head decoration...........
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Here's a review https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-revi ... e-harness/
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That is very cool, I was thinking Indian or maybe a toy for a poor kid years ago.
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A tornado drove a turkey into the tree at 180mph!! Ha!!
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It is plastic rope or line of some sort. That is the center of a line with a hard plastic casing, possibly protection against abrasion or insulation. I'm willing to bet that the stuff will melt if held to a match.
Just my best guess.
Just my best guess.
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"big sack of gold buried under there."
Was the tree at the end of a rainbow?
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I have no idea where the tree came from as it was dropped off to me by a buddy who is a tree surgeon and as he see's a million trees a year, I don't have the heart to ask him where he cut it down from....Besides this particular large chunk of wood has been sitting by my wood pile for at least a year, probably 2. It was the log that I kept all of my wedges and other splitting tools on.
Brent has the best logical answer as I think back to yesterday, I remembered why I never split this particular log up....it was the area of the tree where two very large limbs came together and this is a bugger to split by hand....until I bought the splitter last year.
I'm gonna go down to the dungeon right now and do the burn test.-----6
Then I'll probably find out after burning it all up, it was a special ornament for Pocohontus.
Brent has the best logical answer as I think back to yesterday, I remembered why I never split this particular log up....it was the area of the tree where two very large limbs came together and this is a bugger to split by hand....until I bought the splitter last year.
I'm gonna go down to the dungeon right now and do the burn test.-----6
Then I'll probably find out after burning it all up, it was a special ornament for Pocohontus.
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Chupacabra tail.
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Dang.......my dream of riches has been turned to dirt. Brent was right. It melted. ----6
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It's what's left of an Indian Ceremonial smudge fan.
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I'm sitting here thinking.........I wasted several hours of taking pictures, digging it out, posting the pics, and writing up the dialog.........all for a piece of clothes line that somebody just used to dry their dirty poop stained underwear on.----well, thanks guys......it's on to the next new adventure!--------6
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A guy I knew with a sawmill found a horseshoe in the middle of a tree once. Be glad you didn't find one of those.
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Well, maybe it was Pocahontas' dirty underwear, at least...Sixgun wrote:I'm sitting here thinking.........I wasted several hours of taking pictures, digging it out, posting the pics, and writing up the dialog.........all for a piece of clothes line that somebody just used to dry their dirty poop stained underwear on.----
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You guys are pretty darn funny today.
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This would be either your great great grandfather or a 3rd brother, your great great granduncle.AJMD429 wrote:... my great-grandpappy's uncle's brother's farm...
I'm at work today so I used company time to think about this.
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AJMD429 wrote:Well, maybe it was Pocahontas' dirty underwear, at least...Sixgun wrote:I'm sitting here thinking.........I wasted several hours of taking pictures, digging it out, posting the pics, and writing up the dialog.........all for a piece of clothes line that somebody just used to dry their dirty poop stained underwear on.----
Naaaa. I smelled it and could not detect any fish. ----6
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I found a .45 ACP bullet in a log I was splitting from my back yard, in town. It was a good 8" deep and looked to have been there a long time.
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I bet that tree was once by a pond or river. IMO, Some fisherman went and took the hook end of a lure he was using and hooked in to the bark of a tree and forgot about it. What y'all see is the back of the lure while the hook is embedded in the little piece of wood on the front of it.
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Trees eat the strangest things.
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That aint funny, you owe a new keyboard and a cup of coffee.AJMD429 wrote:Well, maybe it was Pocahontas' dirty underwear, at least...Sixgun wrote:I'm sitting here thinking.........I wasted several hours of taking pictures, digging it out, posting the pics, and writing up the dialog.........all for a piece of clothes line that somebody just used to dry their dirty poop stained underwear on.----
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How the heck can a fella possibly remain mentally healthy while hanging out with You People.
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You should know by now Blaine 'It ain't happening brother'BlaineG wrote:How the heck can a fella possibly remain mentally healthy while hanging out with You People.
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Blaine,
It's what keeps most of us going...at least me, anyway. The world is so screwed up and there are so many headaches in everyday life, we all need a break. ----------6
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When I first saw your pic, I wondered if it was an old fishing lure.....Sixgun wrote:Blaine,
It's what keeps most of us going...at least me, anyway. The world is so screwed up and there are so many headaches in everyday life, we all need a break. ----------6
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if its any consolation I know 2 guy that hit guns with there chain saws
that were completely growed into the trees
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that were completely growed into the trees
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I am wondering why six spent so much time on this fruitless endeavor.
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Hey! Who pulled your string? You come out of the dark and start barking. ------6Mescalero wrote:I am wondering why six spent so much time on this fruitless endeavor.